18th ANNUAL WOMEN’S MEMORIAL MARCH

SATURDAY FEBRUARY 14, 2009

 

 

 

 

 

@ NOON GATHER AT CARNEGIE COMMUNITY CENTRE THEATRE
(401 MAIN STREET, CORNER HASTINGS, VANCOUVER)
@ 1 PM MARCH BEGINS FROM MAIN AND HASTINGS
Join us to honour the lives of missing and murdered women from Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. This event is organized and led by women because women, especially Indigenous women, face physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual violence on a daily basis. 

For more information call Marlene George at (604) 665-3005

CUPW members pitch in to bring gift of festive cheer!

With Christmas just days away, all is definitely not festive between Canada Post and the Union of Postal Communications Employees (UPCE). The UPCE, Canada Post’s smallest bargaining unit, is a predominantly female workforce that performs clerical and administrative duties.

Now into the sixth week of their strike against Canada Post, UPCE members have firmly stood their ground in a dispute that began when the Corporation demanded to eliminate current sick leave and family leave entitlements and introduce a Short Term Disability plan (STD) that would be solely administered and controlled by Manulife Financial.

UPCE picket lines have remained solid since the onset of the strike but Canada Post’s current leadership regime has thus far shown more interest in applying for court injunctions than in returning to the bargaining table.

On Friday, December 5, 2008, striking UPCE members received a gift of festive cheer from CUPW members. At approximately 8:00 a.m., third floor Letter Carriers from Depot 74, Station K, and the Mountainview Delivery Center took a break from their duties and exited the Vancouver Mail Processing Plant en masse to assemble with the striking workers on West Georgia Street.

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